Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Medication Safety Officer and AMS

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacist to undertake the role of Medication Safety Officer and be responsible for advancing the Antimicrobial Stewardship agenda within the Trust.

You will also work as part of the wider clinical pharmacy team providing advanced clinical pharmacy advice to a specific clinical area.

accountability, plus an ability to work under pressure.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

The pharmacy team has various bases across the county and the successful candidate will be based at one of them with some flexibility for hybrid working, if agreed. It is essential to be able to travel to various sites across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

To undertake the role of Medication Safety Officer for the Trust including representing the Trust on national, regional and system level medication safety networks. This trust wide role leads on all aspects of medication safety within the Trust, working closely with a wide range of multidisciplinary clinical staff and teams and the patient safety team.

This role is crucial for improving medication safety and learning from medication incidents within the Trust. This includes promoting the safe use of medicines, improving the quality of reporting, serving as an essential link for the implementation of local and national medication safety initiatives and alerts.

To lead on Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Trust, working closely with the Infection Control Team and a wide range of multidisciplinary clinical staff and teams.

To undertake clinical pharmacy research and audit to influence practice within the Trust and inform the development of protocols and guidelines associated with the safe use of medicines in mental health, learning disability and community healthcare services.

To be a member of the Clinical Pharmacy team. Provide an Advanced Clinical Pharmacy service to a specific clinical area as required, prescribing medicines within scope of practice if an Independent Prescriber.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Be the Trust Named Medication Safety Officer.
• Function as the organisational link with NHS England and the Medicines Healthcare and Regulatory Agency to receive essential communication and escalate concerns about safe use of medicines.
• Be a member of the National Medication Safety Network, ensuring relevant national initiatives and learning are implemented within the Trust
• Represent the Trust at regional and system level Medication Safety networks
• Be an active member of the Trust Medicines Governance Group. This acts as the Trust medicines safety group.
• Update the Trust Medication Safety programme, ensuring it develops in line with national, regional and local initiatives as well as being informed by Trust safety priorities and learning from incidents.
• Lead on the implementation of medicines related National Patient Safety alerts, collaborating with the wider clinical teams
• Encourage the reporting of medicines incidents by all staff
• Improve the quality of medication error reporting including review and reclassification of individual incidents for data quality purposes as required
• Produce the Trust Quarterly Medication Safety report, demonstrating oversight of medicines incidents, identification of trust wide trends and themes and learning from them.
• Work in partnership with other professionals and system partners to reduce the number of moderate and severe harm medication related event throughout the Trust and ICS. Identifying and implementing new ways of working as required.
• Lead on the development and update of Trust medication safety related policies
• Support the development of Trust electronic prescribing and medicines administration in relation to medication safety
• Work closely with the Patient Safety Team in the implementation of Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, participating in learning activities and any investigations as needed with regards to medicines
• Undertake training to be able to undertake Structured Judgement Reviews
• Support the Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs in relation to controlled drug incident reporting, investigation and producing reports

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registration with GPhC.
• Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience

• Independent Prescriber or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

• At least 3 years postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
• Experience in two or more of hospital pharmacy, mental health, medicines safety, clinical pharmacy role, research, clinical trials and/or audit, medicines protocol/guideline development and implementation, supervisory role

• Management of staff

Skills & Abilities

• Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately
• Good written communication skills
• Computer literate
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Decision making skills

• Effective project management skills

Knowledge & Understanding

• Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy, medication safety and antimicrobial stewardship
• Understanding of medicines and pharmacy legislation
• Up to date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies in relation to medicines safety

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children and young people’s mental health services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Social care;
• Ground-breaking research

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.

CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.

Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.

Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.

If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.

All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.